Black Sheep

Rainbow Haired Girl

Summary: Valeriya Kozlov was once a Black Widow but was known by her fellow widows as the "Red Widow" wearing signature red clothing unlike the black or white that other widows wore. She went to the beat of her own drum in her life, but after the snap things changed quickly Valeriya is looking for her place in the unsnapped world.

Disclaimer: I don't own Moon Knight, but I do own Valeriya Kozlov and her code name Red Widow.

Authoress Note: I know that I shouldn't be writing another story, but I promise you there is a reason why I'm writing this out. I don't want to forget the idea before too long. And being a little over two months out of surgery and healing well, I thought that it was a good idea to get this story written out much like the other ones I have. I have long stories on here and this probably will be another one. We have many Marvel stories out there on my page like As the World Falls Down which is a Stark Sister story, God of Mischief and Lies and The Woman of Many Faces which is a Loki story, The Winter Soldier and the Luna Wolf which is a Bucky story, and we also have Centuries which I just started a few weeks ago which currently has no pairings. Now we will have a Moon Knight fic and I can't wait to show you guys what I have planned. I hope that you guys will enjoy this story and it'll be a fairly gnarly and rough story going through this. There will be dark points during this story and I promise that I will give a heads up when it gets to the point if it gets into a topic that could cause problems.

There are also many things that I'm going to change from End Game. Since there are a few things that I want to make it seem a little bit better. You'll see soon enough of what I am talking about. I should stop rambling of course so I know that it is time to get to the story and I hope that you guys enjoy the prologue of this brand-new story. Without further ado the Prologue.

Prologue

A young woman sat in the Avengers Compound biting her pink lip as her gray eyes slid up to everyone that was sitting around the table. "An Avengers exhibit in a London Museum?" She asked, running her hand through her blonde locks. She couldn't believe that they wanted to do a section on the Avengers in the London Museum. After everything that they had done for the world, no one wanted to leave them alone. It was always something new that they wanted the Avengers to be involved in.

Tony swiveled in his chair to look at the blonde-haired young woman. "Look I know you don't feel comfortable about the whole thing of museums wanting to open exhibits up."

"I don't have anything against it." The younger woman protested not liking the idea that Tony was turning this around on her. "It's just this." She pushed the contract that Tony had given to each one of them. "They want an Avenger there to help put it together? Tony, have you ever thought that maybe some of us don't even want to be part of that?"

Tony let out a breath shaking his head lightly. "I know that most of us are retired now."

"Tony, that's an understatement. All of us are retired. I don't think that Secretary Ross would be happy to see any of us doing any hero work."

"This won't be hero work…" Tony said simply with a shrug.

Natasha leaned forward in her seat resting her hands on the table. "And which one of us should go? Most of us don't have time in the day except for a few of us…"

Tony rubbed his mouth softly. "I've done a lot of thinking on who should go," Tony said leaning back in his chair knowing that they were probably curious about who would be going to England to help with the exhibit. "Thor is off-world with the Guardians of The Galaxy so who knows when he'll return. Bruce is busy with his cousin Jennifer who is trying to figure out a path she wants to take." Tony closed his eyes deep in thought. "Clint is busy with his family. Wanda is off who knows where. Rhodey has military things to deal with. Scott is spending time with family. Nat, you're busy with Fury. Bucky won't go because that would be against his court-mandated therapy that he has to do to be pardoned. Sam is busy with family. Rogers is fully retired due to going back to be with Peggy."

The young woman shifted in her seat not liking it as he continued to go through the last of the Avengers. Which was only down to her and him.

"And I'm busy with Pepper and Morgan. Which leads down to you Valeriya."

"Oh, you can't be serious."

Tony eyed the blonde-haired girl who was shifting around messing around with the hem of her red shirt that she wore. "Come on, it won't be that bad, Valeriya."

"Says you. You want me to go to London alone and curate this Avengers exhibit in a museum when I shouldn't even be leaving the country."

Tony held up his hand knowing that the poor girl didn't like to be ordered around, but he had no choice in the matter. He was going to have to make her go. It wouldn't look well on them if no one went to London to help with the exhibit. "It'd look bad on us if one of us doesn't go."

Valeriya ran her hand through her hair in nervousness. "You want me to go…"

"You're not a flight risk, Red."

Valeriya let out a breath rubbing her mouth softly wincing a little bit in thought. How was she even going to do this without causing some sort of trouble which always seemed to follow her no matter where she went? She felt the clammy sweat roll down the sides of her face as she was going into even more thought of what she should do. She let out a breath looking down at her hands that she put on the table. "I don't have much of a choice do I?"

Tony let out a breath and got up to his feet. "I know you can do this."

Valeriya let out a breath and got up to her feet. She looked out the window with her arms crossed. "Alright, I'll do it."

Natasha got up to her feet and walked over to the blonde-haired girl. She put her hand on her shoulder. "U tebya yest' eto, malysh."

"YA? YA tak ne dumayu." Valeriya said easily in Russian back to her fellow countrywoman. She felt like she was really going to mess things up and that was the last thing that she needed.

"We will always be here for you, a phone call away," Natasha said, rubbing her shoulder softly. "If you need us, call and we'll come."

Valeriya swallowed the thick lump that formed in her throat knowing that was very true. Natasha was always going to be there for her and the rest of the Avengers would be as well. "Alright." She knew that this choice wasn't easy for her to be going, she could only hope that nothing bad would happen and thrust her back into the world of heroes and fighting.

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This is the end of the Prologue. I hope that you guys enjoyed this. I tried my best to write it out. It took me a little bit to get the placing right for this first part. So I'm hoping that it is enjoyable. I think you can tell that this is an everyone lives type of thing. But Steve isn't here in this timeline because he's old man Steve. Perhaps he'll make one appearance in this story, but I haven't decided yet. Please leave a review and let me know what you think of this story. I can't wait to show you guys what is to come in this story. I hopefully will update you next week with a brand new chapter. Until next time.

-U tebya yest' eto, malysh.: You have this, little one.

-YA? YA tak ne dumayu.: Do I? I don't think I do.